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Art By Decade

Four L's Excentric II by George Rickey

Four L's Excentric II, 1990 (begun 1987)

Five Lines in Parallel Planes by George Rickey

Five Lines in Parallel Planes, 1966

Space Churn with Octagon II by George Rickey

Space Churn with Octagon II, 1972 (begun 1971)

Life By Decade

1971

Rickey for a third time participates in the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (the German Academic Exchange Service Artists-in-Berlin Program).

He travels to Rotterdam, Bellingham (WA), San Francisco, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Amsterdam, London, and Glasgow.

George Rickey stands with Two Rectangles Vertical Gyratory.

Technical Terms

“The essentials of a gimbal are a pair of bearings mounted within another pair, with the axes of these two pairs at 90 degrees to each other. Each set of paired bearings permits movements through an arc in a plane.”

Public CollectionS

Three Squares Gyratory by George Rickey

Three Squares Gyratory (1972-1975), Photo by rocor

Four Open Squares Horizontal Gyratory Tapered by George Rickey

Four Open Squares Horizontal Gyratory Tapered (1984)